1) Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Whole Black Peppercorns, Certified Organic, Piper…
Frontier Natural Products Co-op recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 April 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Testing of organic whole black peppercorns revealed the presence of Salmonella
The record
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- Product
- 1) Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Whole Black Peppercorns, Certified Organic, Piper nigrum. Net 11.3 Kg 25 LB. Packaged in corrugated cardboard boxes. Firm name on the label is Frontier in Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-82603-9.; 2) Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Whole Black Peppercorns, Certified Organic, Piper nigrum. Net 453 g 16 OZ. Packaged in foil pouches. Firm name on the label is Frontier in Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-02603-3; 3) Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Black Peppercorns Whole. Net WT. 2.12 OZ (60 g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-18435-1; 4) Simply Organic, black peppercorns. NET WT. 2.65 OZ. (75g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Frontier Natural Products, Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-18524-2.; 5) Simply Organic, Adjustable Grinder Cap, daily grind. NET WT. 2.65 OZ. (75g). Packaged in glass jars with a grinder cap. Distributed by Frontier Natural Products, Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-19218-9.; 6) Simply Organic, black peppercorns, poivre noir en grains. NET WT. 2.65 OZ. POID NET 75g. Packaged in glass jars. Manufactured by Frontier Natural Products, Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-19210-3.; 7) Simply Organic, Adjustable Grinder, Broyeur R¿glable, black peppercorns, poivre noir en grains. NET WT. 2.65 OZ. POID NET 75g. Packaged in glass jars. Manufactured by Frontier Natural Products, Norway, IA. UPC 0-89836-19218-9.; 8) 365, Black Peppercorns, NET WT 1.87 OZ (53g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Whole Foods Market, Austin Texas. UPC 0-99482-44497-6; 9) 365, Black Peppercorns, NET WT 2.12 OZ (60g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Whole Foods Market, Austin Texas. UPC 0-99482-44563-8.; 10) 365, Black Peppercorns, NET WT 8.08 OZ (229g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Whole Foods Market, Austin Texas. UPC 0-99482-44511-9.; 11) 365, Organic Black Peppercorns Grains de Poivre noir biologique, 60g (2.12 OZ). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by Whole Foods Market, Austin Texas. UPC 0-99482-73914-0; 12) Nature's Place Organic, Black Peppercorns, NET WT. 2.26 OZ (64g). Packaged in glass jars. Distributed by DZA Brands, LLC in Salisbury, NC. UPC 7-25439-95273-6; 13) Meijer Organics, Black Peppercorns, NET WT. 2.26 OZ (64g). Packaged in plastic jars. Item number ME81732. UPC 7-13733-78173-2;
- UPC
- 089836826039
- Reason for recall
- Testing of organic whole black peppercorns revealed the presence of Salmonella
- Recalling firm
- Frontier Natural Products Co-op
- Firm location
- Norway, Iowa, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1880-2014
- Quantity
- 91357 units
- Distribution
- Recalled product was shipped nationwide and to Canada and Indonesia. The firm has no government or military consignees.
- Initiated
- 4 April 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 30 April 2014
- Terminated
- 13 July 2015
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Lot numbers: 3246, 3226, 3256, 3288, 3232, 3233, 3280, 3246, 3287, 3260, 3267, 3247, 3221, 3262, 3294, and 3261;
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 15 months, from 4 April 2014 to termination on 13 July 2015. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
What this recall was for
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Frontier Natural Products Co-op
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 26 other records name this firm.
All 27 records for Frontier Natural Products Co-op
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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